Example sentences of "[coord] [verb] they [adv] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 31 | My hon. Friend the Member for Stroud ( Mr. Knapman ) understood all these points and put them clearly to the Opposition . |
| 32 | For psychology , the irrationality , affectivity and sociability which it attributes to women link them to the unscientific uncertainties of subjectivity , and put them slightly outside the discipline 's proper field . |
| 33 | He picked the clothes up off the floor and put them away in the wardrobe , and found the President a clean pair of slacks and a shirt before sweeping up the broken glass . |
| 34 | Out of the morally serious upper middle-class English air he took empiricism and Idealism , the assumption of pre-determined progress and a belief in benevolent intervention , the general English notions of biological evolution and a Comtean conviction in positive altruism and put them together in the service of a liberal socialist ideal . |
| 35 | Asik watched as the mother passed around all of the sandwiches and put them daintily on the plates . |
| 36 | The doctor looked at them and put them quietly in the pocket of his coat . |
| 37 | But he was either moody and difficult , or else in tearing spirits , playing with the children and upsetting them so that their mother would come and whip them afterwards for the noise they made . |
| 38 | Cut the slices in half and stand them semi-upright round the edges of the dish(es) and across the centre . |
| 39 | She skips and twists among them , sniffing their hind-quarters , until at last she finds the two she seeks , her own young , and leads them away to the shade of a bush and there lets them suckle . |
| 40 | In the early days , the salesman behind the counter had served to promote the merits of different products , and to wrap them carefully for the customer 's homeward journey . |
| 41 | Suddenly , after three or four years of silence , as they stood side by side in some rented school hall , slackening their bows and cleating them away in the lids of their violin cases , they began to talk . |
| 42 | He saw how every little niggling thing old Andy had given him to do counted — how one developed his muscle , another his eye , a third his judgement of time and distance ; how each hour he spent working with the foremast hands taught him to know and understand them better against the day when such men as they were would look to him for guidance . |
| 43 | He did n't know what was happening between Gesner and Suzi any more , had n't seen either of them since the Season began , since that dreadful scene at Willi 's party , but he knew he had to submit himself to yet another bout of torture and watch them together on the stage . |
| 44 | These are for the climbers , and when you feel puny as a walker you can sidle over to someone looking through this rail and look them straight in the eye , secure in the knowledge that nothing in hill-walking requires you to dress in such a gruesome fashion . |
| 45 | But as she washed her breakfast cup and saucer and rinsed them meticulously under the cold tap , she was anxious . |
| 46 | Axelrod took the 63 strategies and threw them again into the computer to make ‘ generation 1 ’ of an evolutionary succession . |
| 47 | Had n't he clothed them well and fed them well over the years ? |
| 48 | Uncle Philip picked them up and stuck them briskly in the gap between the puppet 's wooden breast and its white satin bodice . |
| 49 | She would drive to the nursery in the spring and pick up boxes of spring flowers , pansies , violets , crocuses , iris , lilies of the valley , daffodils , and jonquil , and set them lovingly in the damp sweet-sour earth . |
| 50 | Liquid crystals — these are able to store ingredients such as vitamin E and release them slowly into the skin for prolonged benefits . |
| 51 | Well , we already do that at the moment , trying to assess a myriad of individual benefits with people filling up forms and sending them all over the country . |
| 52 | Use oval nails and punch them well below the surface |
| 53 | In the bedroom she took off her blouse and skirt and hung them carefully in the wardrobe . |
| 54 | Claudia woke up slowly , opening her eyes and closing them immediately against the light that poured in through long narrow windows . |
| 55 | One by one , Polly gathered up the children and placed them carefully on the privet bird 's back . |
| 56 | John took the empty cups down below and placed them quietly in the small sink . |
| 57 | Establishing these aspects initially is difficult enough , but the real headache is to maintain and apply them continuously throughout the various iterations of a changing design . |
| 58 | CU now wants to increase its range of policies and promote them heavily to the growing 50 to 64-year-old market , which will grow by 27 per cent by 2015 . |
| 59 | Make a list of the special words and phrases which are used , put them into sentences and weave them thoroughly into the do-it-yourself SAS mirror-practice with which you are still persevering faithfully and regularly every day . |
| 60 | providing , and you 've been living off capital in that way , and and and I 'm not prepared to do that , but I do think there is strong case for borrowing , er , providing it 's kept in in that in in er er under control at this time , and borrowing , I may feel that we will be able to be in a much better position to take our capital receipts and use them advantageously in the future . |